Believe it or not, lunch, which should probably be the biggest meal of the day, is my smallest. I don't do anything like normal people. So, as boring as it is, I start lunch with a Yoplait Pina-Colada yogurt. Yummy. Once that's done I'll finish with a blueberry flavored Cliff Bar. Scrumptious. Of course when you eat a Cliff Bar, or reasonable facsimile, you need to have a glass or bottle of water handy, which I do. I don't go much for the designer waters. I mean, who designs these waters anyway? Do they have to go to school for it? But, I digress, it is after all, a specialty of mine. So, I chase my Cliff Bar down with some filtered water. While water captured using the reverse osmosis process is the purest tasting water, it also uses the most water to get the least amount of water. This isn't good. Today I just go with water filtered through some sort of carbon filter. It's tasty enough for me, and is pretty much the same thing as designer water without the label or the price tag. That's it. I know, you might as well have eaten Chinese food, as you'll "be hungry real soon, I predict".
G&L Content
What was your first G&L? Do you still have it? If not, what made you sell it? What did you replace it with?
My first G&L WAS (Hint as answer to second part of question) a '93 ASAT Special. It has a beautiful Cherry burst color and a highly figured maple neck/fretboard. It was a beautiful guitar. Unfortunately, it ended up having a slight neck twist, perhaps from being from Alaska, with its rather harsh climate. I ended up getting a new maple neck put on it at the factory, COD, as it was well out of warranty, being that it was around 2006 or so. Anyway, the neck that got put on the guitar was a bit stouter than I'm comfortable playing, and a couple of years later I sold it through the "Marketplace" to a G&LDP member. The neck may have been stout but the plek'd neck felt very precise along the fretboard. I hated selling it, but couldn't comfortably play it.
Here's a picture of the '93 ASAT as it was shown in the Ebay auction.
So, recap, '93 ASAT Special was 1st G&L. No, I no longer own it. Sold due to thicker neck. Ah, what did I replace it with? Well, since I didn't want to be without a G&L while the factory was replacing the neck, I came across a very clean ash '87 ASAT with OHSC, metal string tree, serif logo on headstock, on Ebay and hit the BIN button. That one I still have. With the exception of a rather messy job on replacing the output jack, it's in excellent shape. The previous owner had even had a fret level and polish done before selling it. The tolex case in excellent condition as well. It's a great guitar, but I seem to gravitate toward my maple-bodied ASATs. Presently, two of them are in the daily rotation. Number One is my ASAT III project guitar. I can't play, or say, enough about this guitar. Believe it or not, the neck on it was the slightly twisted maple neck that was on my original '93 ASAT Special. And, either the twist self-corrected a bit after becoming acclimatized to California weather, or the twist wasn't that bad in the 1st place. Either way, I'm glad that I didn't give it up. My old friend, the late Paavo Zakin, repeatedly tried to get me to send it to him as a gift. I dang near went for it. With the ASAT III project's success, I'm certainly glad of this. And, who the heck would know what would have happened to it after Paavo's passing?
Replacement, with pic's from its auction:
So, as I asked earlier, what was your first G&L? Do you still have it? If not, what made you sell it? What did you replace it with?
Hmmm...a poll question just popped into my mind. I'd better grab it before it's gone. See poll.
-- Darwin
. I would like to learn more about triads and chord structure though, always been lacking there and my big band experience (tenor sax) doesn't help much there. 
